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Steam Deck the 'perfect platform' for their game say Escape From Castle Matsumoto devs

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Escape From Castle Matsumoto looks like quite a unique one, and the developers give the Steam Deck some rather high praise.

Claim a free copy of the classic Return of the Phantom during the GOG Halloween Sale

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Time for another free game. GOG are giving away Return of the Phantom from MPS Labs / Ziggurat Interactive.

Epic roguelike Caves of Qud now has a proper tutorial

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Gearing up for the final 1.0 release on December 5, the sci-fi fantasy epic roguelike Caves of Qud now has a proper tutorial released.

Check out the Halloween Horror Collection Humble Bundle

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Some spooky treats available in the Halloween Horror Collection Humble Bundle, if you can handle it that is. You're not a scaredy-cat right?

Mesa 24.2.6 graphics drivers released with a few more bug fixes

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The Mesa team have released another bug-fix update with Mesa 24.2.6 available now, with a couple more bug-fix releases planned before they move onto Mesa 24.3 next month.

Steam Deck SteamOS 3.6.20 Beta has an updater fix and Metaphor: ReFantazio performance improvements

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Following on from the huge SteamOS 3.6 update for Steam Deck, Valve has put up SteamOS 3.6.20 Beta with a few more improvements.

Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages

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Valve announced a change for Steam today that will make things a lot clearer for everyone, as developers will now need to clearly list the kernel-level anti-cheat used on Steam store pages.

Luma Island devs spent an 'enormous amount of effort' to make it smooth on Steam Deck

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Luma Island looks pretty sweet from Feel Free Games, a game that combines together elements of adventuring and building together that you can play solo or with up to 4 people together.

COVEN is a fresh 'hyper-violent' retro FPS now in Early Access

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Developer Gator Shins and Hellforge Studios have released the first 10 blood-soaked levels of COVEN, a really fresh new retro FPS.

KDE's end of year fundraiser is live

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If you appreciate the work from the KDE team on things like the Plasma desktop environment, maybe it's time to give them a little donation.

Bazzite updated to Fedora 41 with expanded PC gaming handheld support

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Bazzite Linux has seen an upgrade to the just released Fedora 41, and with it comes lots of extra enhancements to their support of various PC gaming handhelds from AYANEO, ROG Ally and others.

Fedora 41 is out now with plenty of enhancements like easier NVIDIA driver installs

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Fedora 41 is officially out now and brings with it plenty of upgrades for all users. Here's just some of what's new and improved.

Steam Beta adds plenty of Game Recording improvements plus a Steam Play update

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Valve rolled out another two Steam Client Beta updates recently, as they continue pushing the Game Recording system towards a stable release. The fixes are the same for Steam Deck and Desktop since it's a Steam Client update.

Beelink have open-sourced their Multi-Functional EX Docking Station for mini PCs

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Hardware vendor Beelink have "open-sourced" their Multi-Functional EX Docking Station that you can use to extend their GTi Ultra Series mini PCs with a full GPU.

Stellaris: Grand Archive and a free update are out now

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Paradox have released Stellaris: Grand Archive, a pretty fun sounding story pack for their popular sci-fi grand strategy game. There's also a free update out now as well.

Speedollama is an ultra fast, violent and silly platformer-shooter out now

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Coming from Chaosmonger Studio who created ENCODYA, Clunky Hero, Three Minutes To Eight and other games is a new release with Speedollama.

Fanatical's Frightmare Bundle for 2024 has scary stuff plus there's a Halloween Sale

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If you're somehow still stuck for games to grab this week, here's yet another option for you. Well, two, actually. There's the Build your own Frightmare Bundle (Halloween 2024) and the Frightfest Sale on Fanatical.

GOG's Halloween Sale is live now with discounts aplenty

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Yes, yes it's that time of year, every store is wanting your attention with various deals somewhat related to Halloween. Now the GOG Halloween Sale is live.

Assassin's Creed Mirage gets improved Steam Deck support and now rated Playable

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Ubisoft gave a very small update to Assassin's Creed Mirage on Steam and managed to get it bumped up to a Steam Deck Playable rating.

Ubuntu Summit 2024 highlights - Linux gaming talks on UMU and Heroic Launcher

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The Ubuntu Summit 2024 has been and gone, and with it we had a lot of good talks but with our focus on here with gaming there's two that stand out that you may wish to have a look at.